Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Illiteracy \Il*lit"er*a*cy\, n.; pl. {Illiteracies}. [From
{Illiterate}.]
1. The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; lack of
learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability
to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last
census.
[1913 Webster]
2. An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder.
[1913 Webster]
The many blunders and illiteracies of the first
publishers of his [Shakespeare's] works. --Pope.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
illiteracy
n 1: ignorance resulting from not reading
2: an inability to read [syn: {illiteracy}, {analphabetism}]
[ant: {literacy}]
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย